Girl, 16, ‘raped by four laughing strangers after she asked for directions in kebab shop after night out with pals’
The drunk teenager was gang raped in a grubby room above the takeaway, jurors hear
A LOST 16-year-old girl was gang raped by four laughing strangers after she asked them for directions, a court heard.
The drunk teenager was led to a grubby room above a kebab shop where they pushed her onto a bare mattress, it was said.
The men raped the girl repeatedly "and laughed as they put her through the ordeal", a jury was told.
She was allegedly attacked on her way home after a night out with friends when she stopped to ask the way at the pizza and kebab restaurant in Ramsgate, Kent.
Prosecutor Simon Taylor said: "The girl was undoubtedly drunk and was walking the streets alone late at night.
"The Crown's case is that her drunkenness, youth and vulnerability would have been recognised by the defendants.
"And it was these factors that they took advantage of in the couple of hours that followed."
Mr Taylor said the girl was taken to the flat above the restaurant and added: "Once there she was raped by men on multiple occasions.
"Through drink, and most likely the trauma of what happened to her, she was unable to provide any detailed descriptions.
"The girl had found herself in a room of the second floor above a takeaway.